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Eric W. Dolan The South Carolina police officer who was filmed flipping a student out of her desk was polite, according to a Fox News crime scene expert. Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman on Tuesday night told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the officer did not use excessive force, according to

Reuters Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges of evading bank rules about large cash transactions in a deal reached with prosecutors in a hush-money case stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct. Federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of zero to six months in prison for Hastert, but the judge

Eric W. Dolan The controversy surrounding a high school football coach who refuses to stop leading team prayers during games took an unexpected turn this week. A student at Bremerton High School in Washington has asked the local Satanic Temple to deliver an invocation  and the semi-satirical devil worshippers told KIRO Radios Dori Monson

Bethania Palma Markus Top aides for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign are convinced the Vermont senator can beat front runner Hillary Clinton. In fact, they say, Hillary would make a great vice president. When asked by Bloomberg Politics reporter John Helleman to respond to Clinton critics who claim Hillary is a craven hypocrite, Sanders aides wouldnt

Reuters The white sheriffs deputy caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in Columbia, South Carolina, has been fired, a sheriff said on Wednesday. Deputy Ben Fields violated agency policy when he picked up the teenage girl and threw her across a classroom as he attempted to make

Vyckie Garrison, AlterNet For all the sad and desperate single ladies out there who are pining to put a ring on it LDS Elder M. Russell Ballard has some simple, whimsical advice: You beautiful girls: Dont wander around looking like men. Put on a little lipstick now and then and look a little charming.

Travis Gettys A church youth camp counselor and failed seminary student admitted to molesting at least nine boys over the past decade, police said. Kevin Sloniker, an Idaho long-haul trucker, has been charged with rape and lewd conduct involving two underage boys and is a suspect in the sexual abuse of at least eight other

A student was shot dead on Miles College campus in Alabama early Wednesday, authorities said. Two suspects were taken into police custody. The shooting occurred at an apartment on campus, the college said in an email to faculty and students shortly after midnight, WVTM13.com, a local news network, reported. The historically black college campus is located

A report released late Tuesday by the African Union said mass graves and evidence of horrific crimes, including forced cannibalism, have been discovered in South Sudan. The report said hundreds of members of the ethnic Nuer were captured, tortured and killed by alleged government forces or their allies, according to the Associated Press. The African Union

Eric W. Dolan Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday that a very disruptive teen at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina was partially to blame after video showed a school resource officer flipping her out of her desk. She was very disruptive, she was very disrespectful, and she started this whole incident with

Bethania Palma Markus The Missouri Court of Appeals was forced to uphold the firing of a gay man because the state doesnt have specific non-discrimination protections for LGBT people on the books, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports. James Pittman endured seven years of workplace harassment, including being called a c-cksucker by Joe Jurden, president of Cook

Travis Gettys Before the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964  and decades before the Internet and smart phones existed  black travelers relied on the Green Book to find hotels, restaurants and other establishments willing to accept their business. The travel guide was published between 1936 and 1966 to help black motorists avoid